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Alan Morley

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Are musicians 'different' to other people ?
« on: May 31, 2011, 08:14:13 AM »

I have been playing instruments since I was around seven years old and got a mouth organ, then started on guitar at 13 in 1963 - so I have been playing for a while....

I suspect that over the years of playing in bands and being with other musicians my attitude to life has been shaped differently.

When I'm in the company of musicians, I feel more at ease and more my 'real' self - is it just me, or is this common amongst musicians?
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Re: Are musicians 'different' to other people ?
« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2011, 08:28:10 AM »

I think we do a differ a little bit, not too much though
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Re: Are musicians 'different' to other people ?
« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2011, 08:44:21 AM »

Theres bound to be an empathy with other musicians,for starters you share the same passion for music and i think most artistic people are probably sensitive souls
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Re: Are musicians 'different' to other people ?
« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2011, 09:08:23 AM »

I have never noticed anything about their personalities that sets my music friends apart from my non-music friends. Perhaps the only obvious difference between musicians and non-musicians is the greater passion for music of the former.

For the first 48 years of my life, I was a non-musician; for the last fifteen years I have been trying to become a musician. I don't notice any particular change in myself since taking up the melodeon other than that I am (and feel) older. Conclusion: playing the melodeon makes you feel older.  >:E
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Re: Are musicians 'different' to other people ?
« Reply #4 on: May 31, 2011, 09:13:28 AM »

It's playing music that keeps me young (in my own mind)

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Re: Are musicians 'different' to other people ?
« Reply #5 on: May 31, 2011, 09:34:19 AM »

I'm just puzzled about what non-musicians do with all the time when they are not playing!
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Re: Are musicians 'different' to other people ?
« Reply #6 on: May 31, 2011, 09:55:01 AM »

With me - I think it was gigging in the 60's- four nights a week and practicing on a fifth, that gave me a load of brothers that I never had. The 'beat group' was an extended family. All the fun and the problems and the late nights and booze, and difference between the band and the audience - another world away from my day job...
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Re: Are musicians 'different' to other people ?
« Reply #7 on: May 31, 2011, 09:58:45 AM »

Yes, musicians are different to other people, but so is everyone else.
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Re: Are musicians 'different' to other people ?
« Reply #8 on: May 31, 2011, 09:59:52 AM »

I'm just puzzled about what non-musicians do with all the time when they are not playing!

They watch TV.

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Re: Are musicians 'different' to other people ?
« Reply #9 on: May 31, 2011, 10:05:07 AM »

YES.....superior in every way and usually better looking! (modest too)....TomC
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Re: Are musicians 'different' to other people ?
« Reply #10 on: May 31, 2011, 10:12:34 AM »

What's a TV please?  ???
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Re: Are musicians 'different' to other people ?
« Reply #11 on: May 31, 2011, 10:13:46 AM »

I'm just puzzled about what non-musicians do with all the time when they are not playing!

They watch TV.
You can do both you know...I sometimes watch TV and play. ;)

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Re: Are musicians 'different' to other people ?
« Reply #12 on: May 31, 2011, 10:19:44 AM »

Different?  Hmm, don't really see it myself...
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Re: Are musicians 'different' to other people ?
« Reply #13 on: May 31, 2011, 10:22:50 AM »

Different?  Hmm, don't really see it myself...

No, I don't have a mirror in my house either...
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Re: Are musicians 'different' to other people ?
« Reply #14 on: May 31, 2011, 10:23:44 AM »

I'm just puzzled about what non-musicians do with all the time when they are not playing!

They watch TV.
You can do both you know...I sometimes watch TV and play. ;)

Typical female "I can multi-task" showing off.
I can chew and walk at the same time, but usually end up bumping into something.

I did try playing melodeon and watching TV at the same time once.
It wasn't fully appreciated.
Apparently it "rather kills the atmosphere" of Wallander.
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Re: Are musicians 'different' to other people ?
« Reply #15 on: May 31, 2011, 10:28:13 AM »

I tend to play during programs like 'masterchef' where its all about the pictures and sound isn't that important. ;)

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Re: Are musicians 'different' to other people ?
« Reply #16 on: May 31, 2011, 10:58:27 AM »

You can do both you know...I sometimes watch TV and play. ;)

I tried that....apparently it destroys the storyline of "Corrie" (whatever that is).

I had to build a log cabin in the garden as a practice room when we got married....

But back on topic, I tend to agree with Almo's original statement....
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Re: Are musicians 'different' to other people ?
« Reply #17 on: May 31, 2011, 11:23:58 AM »

it works fine if your watching cricket,not when your girlfriend is trying to watch a tense thriller
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Re: Are musicians 'different' to other people ?
« Reply #18 on: May 31, 2011, 12:27:26 PM »

I'm just puzzled about what non-musicians do with all the time when they are not playing!

Listen to.. musicians
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Re: Are musicians 'different' to other people ?
« Reply #19 on: May 31, 2011, 12:54:24 PM »

Are musicians 'different' to other people ?

Different to banjo players, that's for sure.  :D

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